121 Employee Wellness Program Ideas Your Team Will Love

Employee wellness programs have become a staple in many companies as a way to attract top talent, keep them happy and productive, and decrease employee turnover.

In fact, 80% of employees at companies with robust health and wellness programs feel engaged and cared for by their employers.

The key to having a successful wellness program at work is encouraging overall wellbeing while still keeping it fun (see #57 for a perfect example). If you can’t get your team engaged then your wellness program ideas will quickly lose steam. So make your initiatives fun, try new ideas and see what your team values the most.

Below is a list of 121 employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement at your office.

A lot of the wellness ideas listed here are ones we’ve used ourselves and have seen the benefits firsthand. Many others were contributed to us from awesome companies that know how to take care of their teams.

Here’s a quick list of employee wellness program ideas voted on by our readers.

Nutrition and Healthy Living

1. Provide branded water bottles

Promote hydration, sustainability, and company pride in one fell swoop by gifting your team branded reusable water bottles.

Water bottles will encourage your team to drink more water throughout the day, which can help them maintain a healthy weight, increase their energy, and boost their immune system (among a host of other benefits). And since they’re reusable, you’ll help reduce the estimated 1.5 million tons of plastic waste that bottled water creates every year.

2. Throw a monthly healthy potluck

Create a sign-up sheet with 2 columns (name and what you’re bringing) and post it to the fridge in the main break room for people to list what they’re bringing.

3. Provide your employees with healthy office snacks

Healthy snacks aid in weight control, improve mood, and boost energy, making it a no brainer to provide for your office. If you’re already providing snacks to your employees, consider making the switch to healthier alternatives by becoming a member of an office snack delivery service.

4. Bring in a chef to teach people an easy cooking recipe

Hire a chef who specializes in healthy food to come in for a cooking demonstration.

5. Offer almond milk in addition to regular creamers and milk

Be mindful of the vegans and dairy intolerant folks.

6. Debunk the common healthy eating myths

There’s a lot of marketing around the food industry that tricks people into thinking certain foods or diets are healthy, when in fact they are not. This article by Authority Nutrition does a great job of addressing some of the most common nutrition mistakes that you can share with your team.

7. Publish a workplace wellness newsletter highlighting the best fitness, nutrition, and educational content from around the Web

Setup separate google alerts for “fitness”, “nutrition” and “wellness education” and select “only the best results”. Compile the best articles each week or month into one email and send out for your employees to enjoy.

8. Stop offering low quality snacks

If you offer your team snacks or meals with no nutritional value, make the switch to healthier alternatives. At the very least provide a majority of healthy items for your office and just a few traditional junk food items.

9. Hook your team up with a Bevi

Bevi is a smart water cooler that dispenses refreshing still, sparkling, and flavored water that your team will love. This futuristic hydration station provides a healthier alternative to sugar-laden sodas, while reducing your team’s plastic footprint.

It’s a popular fixture of the SnackNation kitchen – and it just looks cool.

11. Visit a local farmer’s market for lunch

12. Order in lunch for the office, especially during crunch time on big projects

Reward your team for putting in the extra hours by ordering in lunch for them. Stick to something healthy of course – salads, wraps, Mediterranean, or a taco-salad bar or all good options.

13. Community Supported Agriculture

A lot of larger farms offer community supported agriculture programs where you invest in their farm, and they bring you fresh produce weekly. National wellness service provider TotalWellness actually does this for their employees, and if you get enough people from your company signed up they might deliver right to your office. It’s a convenient way to get some fresh, healthy food in your fridge while supporting local farmers.

14. Create a healthy office cookbook

Ask employees to share their favorite healthy recipes. Compile the best ones into a collection and share around the office via a downloadable document in email or a simple printed booklet.

15. Show your employees how they can improve their health

Bring in a specialist who offers biometric screenings and health assessments, and more importantly, can give people a roadmap to improved health.

16. Hold a health fair

Invite local vendors and companies to your office for a day to talk about nutrition and wellness activities. You should have no problem at all persuading local businesses to attend, as it’s a great way for them to promote their service.

17. Assess Your Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the science of designing work tasks (and work spaces) in a way that limits stress on the human body. For office workers, this means things like keyboards designed to minimize the risk of repetitive motion injuries like carpal tunnel, screens that minimize eye strain, and chairs that minimize back pain. This assessment tool can help point you in the right direction.

18. Incentivize smoking cessation

In a study conducted by The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton School, employees who were financially incentivized to quit smoking were 3 times more successful at ditching the habit than non-incentivized employees.

19. Help combat eye strain

Staring at a computer for hours on end can take a toll on your vision. The blurred edges of computerized typeface force your eye to constantly focus in and out for hours on end, which can lead to headaches and fatigue.

Pangobright is a free utility for Windows that dims the light on your screen according to your preference.

20. Remind people to get flu shots

Post a list of locations near your office offering flu shots on the company bulletin board.

21. Celebrate “Wellness Wednesday”

Dedicate hump day to try out any of the ideas on this list. This is a great tactic if you have an office that is set in their ways or otherwise resistant to change. One day a week seems much more manageable (and less overwhelming), and can be a gateway to healthier lifestyles.

Wednesday is great because it’s in the middle of the week when employees usually experience a bit of a lull. (Plus, alliteration!)

22. Go Meatless on Monday

The average American eats 102.5 pounds each year, more than almost any country on the planet. But all this meat is bad news. Our meat-heavy diets have been linked to autoimmune and inflammatory disease, cancer, and heart disease. Make a dent in our meat addiction by encouraging your team to go meat-free at the beginning of the week.

23. Survey your employees to find out what is working and what is not

Don’t waste time and energy on corporate wellness initiatives that employees don’t find engaging or beneficial. Use Survey Monkey or Google Forms to create a survey to collect feedback from employees.

Group Activities and Fitness Hacks

24. Join a local sports league

Google softball, kickball, basketball, or indoor soccer league in your city to see which organizations offer co-ed sports leagues. Offer to pay for some or all of the league’s entrance fee for people interested in participating.

25. On-site yoga classes to relieve stress

Invite a yoga instructor into your office every couple of weeks to guide the team through a yoga class.

26. Participate in a 5K run

Find a 5K in your community and offer to cover entry fee for anyone who chooses to participate.

27. Turn meetings into walking meetings

You sit all day, so why not make your meetings a walking meeting instead? Research has suggested that walking makes people more creative.

30. Post a note near the elevator reminding people to take the stairs instead

31. Offer discounts to a local gym

Many gyms will offer a discount if you sign-up enough employees. Reach out to some local gyms in the area and ask for discounted group rates.

Fun Fitness Challenges, Competitions, and Contests

32. Hold a fitness challenge

Corporate wellness company Fitbug institute a daily wall sit challenge where employees increase the duration of their wall sits by 10 seconds each day, going until the last person remains standing. This serves as a fun fitness challenge idea that gets the whole office involved, and is a great way to get the competitive juices flowing!

33. Host an employee field day

Harmless Harvest, makers of raw coconut water and tea, have combined team building activities with workplace wellness by hosting employee field days followed by dinner. Their team heads to a local park in the afternoon for a game of tennis, catch, soccer, frisbee, or whatever else people feel like doing (even if it’s just getting some sun on a nice day). Afterwards they have a healthy dinner by grilling out at the park or heading to a co-founder’s house.

Wearable technologies like FitBit can help people monitor their fitness levels, track their sleep, and challenge friends who also have the device. The good people at 3 Birds Marketing take part in “Workweek Hustle” challenges where members of the team with FitBits try to out-step each other.

35. The Mile-A-Day Challenge

For 30 days, employees track how many days they ran at least 1 mile. The winner at the end of the month gets a prize.

36. The 7 Hours of Sleep Challenge

For 30 days, employees track how many nights they slept at least 7 hours. The winner at the end of the month gets a prize.

37. The 8 Glasses of Water Challenge

For 30 days, employees track how many days they drank at least 8 glasses (8 ounces) of water. The winner at the end of the month gets a prize.

38. The Whole Life Challenge

The 8 week long Whole Life Challenge incentivizes major lifestyle change by awarding points for completing each of the 7 Daily Habits: nutrition, exercise, mobilize, sleep, hydrate, lifestyle, and reflect. Game mechanics help keep you engaged, and a scoreboard keeps you in friendly competition with co-workers.

39. Team scavenger hunt

Companies like Watson Adventures can help you do the heavy lifting of coordinating a scavenger hunt.

40. Monthly and weekly fitness challenges

Throw down a challenge of the month – most push-ups, most miles run, most miles biked.

41. Healthy cooking contests

Have your staff make their favorite healthy recipes and bring them into work for a cooking contest voted on by the rest of the office.

42. The Biggest Loser Challenge

The people over at Corporate Fitness League offer a step-by-step plan on how throwing a successful Biggest Loser Challenge at your office. Check it out here.

43. Start a virtual exercise challenge

Map out a long distance “virtual mission” from one location to another on My Virtual Mission and challenge your office to complete it either as a team or competing against each other in a virtual race. You could also raise money for a local cause – it’s a win-win!

44. Hold impromptu contests

Encourage healthier lifestyles with impromptu contests. Who brought the healthiest lunch or who can do the most pushups?

47. Schedule recess

Pick a 15 time-slot in the afternoon for everyone to get away from his or her desk. Go outside, socialize with each other, and enjoy some fresh air!

48. Offer unlimited vacation

Before you laugh in my (virtual) face, hear me out. Offering your employees unlimited vacation shows you trust your staff to be responsible and take time off when they need it. The best way to implement this program is to tie it to performance, meaning projects need to be on-track and goals being met.

It’s a win-win because employees have more flexibility and employers can reward good performance.

49. Pay your employees to volunteer

Give your employees an allotted amount of time each month to leave their desks during the day to volunteer. Ideas include volunteering at a local food bank, or cleaning up a park, beach, or trail. You’ll benefit doubly from team bonding and group physical exercise.

50. Turn an empty office into a “No Work Allowed” Employee Lounge

Hack Reactor has a company break room that requires access through a smartphone. It includes a series of soft, comfortable couches for relaxation or naps, turf grass (so you can feel the experience of being outside without leaving the building), a cubby for shoes, and a strict rule of no work talk! Employees are free to listen to guided meditations, play board games, or do yoga.

51. Give employees a vacation day on their birthday

You can also offer 1 floating holiday for the year if they choose to work on their birthday.

52. Encourage employees to schedule break time hourly

Studies have shown that taking breaks is a good thing for our productivity, so encourage people to schedule a small 5-10 minute break every 90 minutes to rejuvenate and come back strong.

53. Reward your most loyal employees

Offer a month-long sabbatical for all employees who hit the 5-year mark of service. For more ideas, check out our list of 121 ways to reward employees.

54. Don’t let frustrated people keep working

NuGo Nutrition says that when people get frustrated at the office, they tell them to go for a walk around the block. They find that fresh air and some sunshine often make people more productive once they get back.

55. Offer flexible paid time off

Give employees the option to choose how they want to use their bank of paid time off (sick days, personal days, and vacation).

Cool Perks and Just For Fun

56. Attire themed days of the week

Pick a day of the week for people to dress up in a certain theme. Our office recently started something called “Aloha Fridays” where team members wear their favorite Hawaiian shirts to work. Theme days are a great way to boost employee morale and engagement.

57. Put on some tunes

Play some music through speakers around the office. Studies show that music improves mood, which can help boost productivity and creativity. Opt for music without lyrics and keep it at an ambient noise level. The SnackNation Ultimate Productivity Playlist is our personally curated selection of lyric-free songs guaranteed to maximize focus and increase your effectiveness.

58. Incentivize ridesharing

Voted by Outside Magazine as a Top 100 Place to Work, Team One implements a fantastic rideshare program that rewards employees for carpooling. Each employee gets a card to mark down the days they partake in ridesharing. Each day counts as 1 point and Team One also throws in double points for certain days of the week. Once an employee hits 30 points, they get a $25 gift card.

59. Company sponsored Happy Hours

Working hard deserves some playing hard. Take your team out for Happy Hour after a long workweek to help everyone unwind before the weekend.

60. Gift card giveaways for major project completions or sales

Buy a bunch of $25 gift cards to Amazon or local restaurants, put the name of each team member into a bowl and select one at random each time a big sale is made or project completed.

61. Institute Summer Fridays

Most businesses experience a decline in sales/business activity during the summer months. Let your employees enjoy more of their summer by offering half day or shortened day Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

62. Change attire to business casual or just casual

By allowing people to ditch the heels or suit and tie, employees will be much more inclined to take a walk outside or bike to work.

63. Encourage public transportation, walking or biking

Panjo, a mobile marketplace for auto, sport, and hobby enthusiasts, doesn’t provide parking spaces to associates who live within 2 miles of their office in order to promote biking and walking. In inclement weather the company covers the cost of a taxi, Lyft, or Uber ride for the walkers and bikers.

64. Incorporate plants around the office

There are many health benefits associated with having a “Green office,” including fresher air, improved emotional state, and a reduction of office illnesses. A University of Queensland study found that an office outfitted with plants can actually increase employee productivity by 15 percent.

65. Go out to lunch to celebrate new hires

Welcome new hires onto your team by taking them out for lunch with your department.

66. Post your company’s mission and core values in the office

The “why” of an organization is almost always more important the the “what.” Hire a graphic designer to make a poster of your company’s mission and core values and post it somewhere with a lot of foot traffic like the breakroom, central conference room, or waiting area right where people walk into the office.

Core values can help instill a sense of purpose to your employees’ daily work, which will lead to elevated moods and higher employee engagement.

67. Make your office pet-friendly

Pets in the office help employees reduce stress and increase things like communication and productivity. Plus pet owners take multiple walks throughout the day.

68. Post an “About Us” page on your website

Include all team member pictures and a short blurb sharing something unique about them.

69. Setup a chair race

Organize an impromptu chair race. What’s the worst that could happen?

70. Post your company’s accolades

Remind your employees that their hard work has been recognized by outside organizations. Frame your accolades, honorable mentions, and community awards around the office.

71. Hand out weekly awards

Create fun awards like “The Duct Tape Award” (the person in the office who fixes everything). “The Pearly White Award” (the person who smiles the most), or “The Cliff Jumper Award” (the person who takes the most risk).

72. Clothing drive

Ask people to bring in old clothes to be donated to a homeless shelter or Goodwill.

73. Celebrate work anniversaries

Make yearly work anniversaries a celebration. Send an email out to the team to commemorate your team’s anniversaries. Also have the CEO or someone else on the executive team craft a hand written note to that person thanking them for their service (this goes a LONG way).

74. Sponsor a company retreat or offsite

Company retreats are a ton of fun and a great way to brainstorm new ideas to drive the company forward. Use the beginning of the day to work on the company and then follow it up at night with a group dinner and drinks.

75. Celebrate an obscure holiday

National Popcorn Day anyone?

76. Hire a masseuse for a day

Create a sign-up sheet with 15-30 minute blocks per massage.

77. Randomly held gifting between employees

Just like White Elephant around the holidays, setup a gift exchange just for fun.

78. Encourage cubicle customization

Hold a contest to see who can customize their cube the best and vote on a winner.

79. Throw a costume or themed party

It doesn’t have to be Halloween to dress up in theme. Why not a random Wednesday in March?

85. Discount your service or product to employees

Offer to subsidize a set amount of an employee’s insurance premium when they log a certain number of exercise hours each month. There are also several apps and services in the digital health marketplace that can help employers ensure that their workforce is adopting and keeping new, healthy habits.

87. Use holidays as an excuse to get healthy

The holidays always seem to be an excuse to eat food that’s not good for us. Instead of the traditional junk food, offer green juices/smoothies on St. Patrick’s Day, red bell peppers and hummus on Valentine’s Day, turkey jerky around Thanksgiving, blackberry and orange fruit salad on Halloween.

89. Create an employee referral program

90. Implement a “Team Bucks” system

Make a fake currency where people can reward each other with “Team Bucks”. Allow people to collect and trade their “Team Bucks” in for real-world prizes like gift certificates.

91. Appoint an Employee Wellness “Governor”

Make it fun and hold an election every quarter, 6 months, or year where the whole office gets to vote on the new woman or man in charge.

92. Offer paid maternity leaves

If your company is not already doing so, consider offering new mothers paid maternity leave.

93. Tea for the soul

Lay out some hot water, tea bags, and some healthy treats. Google “inspirational quotes” and write them down on strips of paper. Put all the quotes in a bowl. Invite people to take a 15-minute break to enjoy a cup of tea and snack and have everyone grab 1 quote from the bowl.

94. Start a facebook group that highlights hikes around your city

Ask people to submit photos from their hikes and highlight trails they walked. A facebook group will also easily allow people to organize group hikes.

95. Spin the wheel for hitting milestones

96. Promote laughter

According to the Mayo Clinic, laughter really is the best medicine. Laughter has a number of short- and long-term benefits, including improved immune system, elevated mood, and reduced stress. To get your office chuckling, give away two tickets to a local comedy show or even invite a local comedian to perform.

97. Establish designated coffee time

Setup a time in the morning and/or afternoon for employees to walk together to the local coffee shop for a pick-me-up. It’ll also give people a chance to catch up and exchange some laughs.

98. Offer a donation-matching program

Companies like Apple offer to match any charity or philanthropic donations made by employees.

101. Create flexible work hours

Everyone likes more flexibility with work because it allows him or her to structure their day to their lifestyle. Kick the habit of mandated working hours (i.e. 9am – 5pm with a half hour for lunch) and focus more on results. What matters most is the quality and effectiveness of someone’s work.

102. Subsidize personal development books and courses

Nothing is more important than the personal and professional development of your employees. Offer a flat or percentage based subsidy for personal development books, seminars, and training courses.

103. Offer one remote working day each week

Give your responsible and reliable team members the option of working remotely 1 day out of the week. Remote work allows people to work more productively, eliminate long commutes, and spend more time with their family.

104. Share personal goals on a whiteboard

Get a whiteboard where people only write their non-work related wellness goals. Things like “Go to the gym 3 times per week”, “play basketball 4 times per month”, or “read 10 books this year” are some good ones to get people started. Doing so will create a sense of common cause and accountability, spurring higher goal completion rates.

105. Morning huddles for each department

Schedule a daily huddle with all department team members to verbalize everyone’s main goals for the day and let others know if they are needed.

106. Departmental “Crucial Results”

Create a google shared spreadsheet where everyone within a department lists the 3 most important assignment, tasks, or projects they need to finish each day and their top 5 for the week. Highlight “crucials” green at the end of the day if they were completed and red if they were not. This will help create a better level of accountability for each person and lead people to focus on the most important items:

107. 20% time

Google used to offer “20% time”, which allowed employees to take one day a week to work on side projects (provided it advanced Google in some way). The program led to the developments of Gmail and Adsense, so it could give your team some time to let their true creative genius shine.

108. No Talk Tuesday

From 9am-noon, try banning any non-urgent meetings and interruptions with each other. It’ll help everyone in the office get more work done early in the week so that the end of the week can be less stressful.

Mental Health and Personal Growth

109. Create a “high-five” board

Create cutouts with each employee’s name on it and paste it to a magnet. Then buy a white board and put all the names up on it. Leave some dry-erase markers out so people can call-out another team member for something positive they did. Here’s one of the “high-five” boards at SnackNation:

110. Host Lunch and Learns

Choose a day of the week or month to gather for a company-wide Lunch and Learn. Allow team members to present on a topic they’re interested in (whether it’s work related or not) and use this time to discuss important company updates. Revolutionary news site RYOT hosts a brown bag lunch every Monday where the company meets to discuss goals and triumphs.

112. Acknowledgement and gratefulness meeting at the end of the week

Schedule half an hour on Friday afternoon for the company to gather together and go around in a circle naming off another person’s work they want to acknowledge and 1 thing they are grateful for that week.

At SnackNation, we call it the “Crush-it Call.” Here’s a video explaining how to implement your own version of the CiC:

113. Organize a book club

Reading interesting books allow employees to share ideas on a wide range of topics. Select a book each quarter and allow people to form small groups to read and review.

114. Start a community library

Setup a bookshelf in your office and ask everyone to lend books to the library. Create a sign-up sheet so people can check-in and check-out books.

115. Inspirational quote of the day or week

Who doesn’t love a great quote, right? Most companies have a bulletin board or chalkboard where employees frequently pass by. Write a new inspirational quote daily or weekly to energize the office. BrainyQuote is a great site to find quotes.

116. Put up a wellness wall

Toms Shoes has a wellness wall at their office in Los Angeles where employees can post things like healthy eating tips, exercise routines, etc.

119. Create an acknowledgement jar

Setup a jar with strips of paper and a pen next to it for people to acknowledge someone else’s work. Read the acknowledgements aloud during your weekly team meetings.

120. Fight Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) with light therapy

Seasonal Affective Disorder is a form of depression that afflicts office workers during the winter months, when the lack of light affects the production of brain chemicals like serotonin and melatonin. To ward off SAD, maximize the amount of natural light in your office, or use bright artificial lights (like the Verilux HappyLight) at employee desks.

121. Subsidize ongoing education

One of my favorite Core Values at SnackNation is “Seek Perpetual Growth”. One of the best investments an organization can make is in the development of its people. Encourage people to seek ongoing education by subsidizing any classes they take that will help them grow in their position.

Regardless of the size of your business, there are several reasons you and your employees can benefit from an increased focus on employee health and happiness.

Employee wellness programs are a vital component in attracting top talent, keeping them happy, and decreasing employee turnover and absenteeism. Many of the best companies to work for already offer their employees the awesome wellness ideas listed above.

Now it’s your turn to improve the well-being of your workspace.

So what ideas are you using for your wellness program? If we’ve missed an awesome idea let us know in the comments below.

Free bonus:Download this entire list as a PDF. Easily save it on your computer for quick reference or print it for your company’s next Wellness Meeting. Includes 10 bonus ideas not found in this post.

Emil Shour is the Content Manager at SnackNation. His goal? To help companies create better places to work by improving health, inspiring teams to improve together, and making the office a fun and productive environment.

Our office brings in a Yoga instructor on Fridays each week. It’s really brought us together and started a lot of conversations about how to have a healthier office. One or two things from the list can really kick start a boost morale, and office wellness.

Hi Morgan, sounds like you have an awesome office that genuinely cares about employee health. That’s great to hear you guys have tried almond milk as a substitute. It’s surprising how many people have a dairy allergy and don’t even know it!

I love these ideas! My company is already doing some of them (new hire luncheons, sabbatical, gym reimbursement). I saw some great ideas and can’t wait to try them. I’m especially interested in putting together an office cookbook, since many people cook/bake and bring goodies to share.

Corinna, glad you liked this list of employee wellness ideas! That’s great to hear your company is ahead of the game with all those great wellness initiatives. I hope the office cookbook works well with your team 🙂

Hey Emil!! Really great tips!!
I love #104 best… laughter really is the best medicine!!
One more thing you might like to include is “Encourage employees to have a healthy breakfast every morning!”.I have put together a list of 100 Healthy & Tasty Breakfast Recipes, in an attempt to encourage people to start their day with a healthy breakfast. Do let me know if you’d like to see it!

Awesome ideas Emil, I read the list fast, and when I reach to the point number 53 “encourage nap time” I become so happy and confused because all of us know that taking a nap is so healthy but few people take real steps to encourage the employers to do so. Thanks for ideas.

Thanks Emil for sharing this great list of ideas. I also wanna to add an idea; every one of employers have to teach his team something new in his field every week. You can put this idea in challenge list and the winner can get a prize or something like that.

Hi Emil, So many creative ways to engage employees and promote wellness. i LOVE IT!
Do you have any recommendations for companies that can do on-site wellness meetings each month. We have 3 locations in NorCal and 3 in SoCal. We would like to hit one office live each month and record the training for the other offices to view.

Really enjoyed reading this article…in fact it was so long I had to stop a few times and come back to finish. Mainly though, it’s been good resource that we’re able to forward on to our clients in the Tampa FL area. It’s nice to push a little extra value their way. Thanks for the post!

Emil, this is a fantastic list! We’ve been looking for a few ways to start shaping our company culture and introduce some more benefits to our staff and this list is going to be super useful. I think that the best companies are now moving beyond simple salary – getting the benefits right is going to be fundamental to attract top tallent.

We used to offer cheap snacks to our employees but made the switch to fruit and other healthy alternatives but no one seems to like them nearly as much as the sugary sweets and chips we use to have. We do try and have a healthy barbecue or picnic once every few months though and we encourage fitness and working out. that’s seems to improve moral but not our employees health. Thoughts?

Hey Rickie, I appreciate your comment here. Can I ask what kind of healthy alternatives you’ve tried offering? We offer a lot of snacks that taste amazing, but are made with healthier ingredients. For example, Kind bars instead of Snickers bars. Our unofficial motto is “count ingredients, not calories” 🙂

That’s understandable. It’s hard to get people to go from “junk food” to the other end of the spectrum w/really healthy stuff. I think you’ll get a lot better reception if you start offering healthier alternatives (like the KIND bar instead of Snickers bar example).

Can I ask what’s stopping you from giving SnackNation a shot? No pressure, just curious because it sounds like we can help you get your team on board with healthier options without sacrificing taste.

Hi Emil..I work for a wellness organization where we train companies and organization on comprehensive workplace wellness.You have really helped me get good tips and ideas to share to them.Really creative especially the high five board and spin board.

Great blog post! We use a lot of these same ideas at Sonic Boom Wellness to keep our employees engaged and happy. One of the best ways to relieve stress is having an office pet to roam around the office … we have a husky named Sierra that will make you smile no matter how rough your day is going!

Great Article, and love all the comments from the wellness community! With all these helpful tips, there are plenty of ways that you will enjoy an employee wellness program (plus who doesn’t love healthy snacks, am I right!).

How about adding visits to a salt cave for halotherapy treatment. Great way to de-stress plus a load of health benefits. Here is a list of salt caves found in every state in the country.http://www.vtsaltcaves.com/us-salt-caves

The point of a wellness program is to change unhealthy behaviors and habits with healthier ones. While most companies offer free sodas, and easy way to change that habit is to subsidize it instead of making it completely free. I probably don’t need to tell you the power of free, but here’s a really good article that demonstrates how much it plays a part in our behavior – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/07/06/priced-to-sell.

Emil, gosh this is great! It would be tremendous to implement even a handful of these tips. It is a challenge, where I currently work, to incorporate the outside of work growth (particularly with health, fitness and personal growth) into the day-to-day role. Many others would benefit and creating a more harmonious environment would be fantastic. Thank you again!

Tea for the soul is a great idea! This sounds good most especially if the workplace you are in is stressful. I think it would be great if employees could share their ideas and insight about the quote. Thanks a lot! 😀

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